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4.0 out of 5 stars
You Can't Win Them All,
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This review is from: The Dazzle and Everett Beekin (Paperback)
"The Dazzle" is so much fun to read. The play is about an Abbott and Costello-type set of brothers whose eccentricities lead finally to tragedy but who, in the meantime, offer up some brilliant banter on the order of Oscar Wilde. There is the mild-mannered brother who is the 'normal' one, and then the flamboyant pack-rat whose horde of trash finally does him in. Based on the the true story of the Collyer brothers of NYC, this play offers a wonderful, witty, but finally sad entertainment. "Everett Beakin", on the other hand, offers two plays in one: the first act is a kind of Jews-the-ghetto set piece on the order of The Honeymooners, while the second act set in affluent Orange County, California is about the grandkids fifty some years later. You get to decide who is more obnoxious. Both function as related skits leading to some sort of profound statement which I am not smart enough to figure out. A pretentious dud.
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The Dazzle and Everett Beekin by Richard Greenberg (Paperback - April 16, 2003)
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